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  Houston (AFP) Aug 5, 2020 SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company hopes to use one day to colonize Mars. "Mars is looking real," SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted in response to a fan. The current Starship prototype is fairly crude: it's a large metallic cylinder, built in a few weeks by SpaceX teams on the Texas coast, in Boca Chica - but it's still smaller than the actual rocket will be. Several pre ... read more |
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Astronauts praise 'flawless' SpaceX capsule landingWashington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020 Two NASA astronauts who returned from space to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday praised the SpaceX Dragon capsule's performance in their first public comments since the mission. ... more  
AFLCMC Awards Skyborg ContractWright-Patterson AFB OHw (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded multiple indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts to The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri; General Atomics Aeronautical System ... more 
VSR700 prototype performs first autonomous free flightMarignane, France (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 The prototype of Airbus Helicopters' VSR700 unmanned aerial system (UAS) has performed its first free flight. The VSR700 performed a ten minute flight at a drone test centre near Aix-en-Provence in ... more  
Room temperature superconductivity creeping toward possibilityUniversity Park PA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists. The surprising dis ... more |
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Apocalyptic scenes as blasts ravage BeirutBeirut (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 An entire port engulfed in fire, ships ablaze at sea and crumbling buildings: the site of the massive blast in Beirut's harbour area resembled a post-nuclear landscape. ... more 
Proton-M with two telecommunication satellites launches from BaikonurMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 03, 2020 The flight of the Russian Proton-M carrier rocket, initially scheduled to take place on 29 July (30 July local), was postponed one day for additional checks to components and assemblies, according t ... more  
Army seeks proposals for Marines' new shoulder-fired rocket systemWashington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020 The Army is looking to procure a shoulder-fired rocket system on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps, the Corps announced on Tuesday. ... more 
Marines elevate training command for 'information-age model'Washington DC (UPI) Aug 03, 2020 The U.S. Marine Corps announced an elevation of its Training and Education Command on Monday to a "three-star command" to reflect its importance and focus on the "intellectual edge" of Marines. ... more  
Full global service of Beidou signals space tech independenceBeijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a cerem ... more |
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 Esper: Nation grieves over 9 service members killed in training 
Last BeiDou satellite starts operation in networkBeijing (XNA) Jul 30, 2020 The 55th and last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has commenced operation in the network after completing in-orbit tests and network access evaluations, according to a stat ... more  |
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US ends search for 7 missing Marines, sailor, says presumed deadLos Angeles (AFP) Aug 2, 2020 The US military said Sunday it has called off a search for seven Marines and a sailor missing at sea for days, saying they were presumed dead. ... more 
Swiss Army Chooses Lockheed Martin's Indago 3 UAS For Tactical Reconnaissance And SurveillanceVineyard UT (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin (LMT) for a fleet of Indago 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Arm ... more
Eight still missing after US Marine amphibious vehicle sinksLos Angeles (AFP) July 31, 2020 Eight military personnel remained missing at sea Friday nearly a full day after a US Marine amphibious assault vehicle sank in deep water off the California coast during training exercises. ... more  
Lockheed, Boeing and Saab bid on Canada's fighter jet contractWashington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 Lockheed Martin, with its F-35 fighter plane, joined Boeing and Saab on Friday in submitting bids to build advanced aircraft for Canada's armed forces. ... more  
Subterranean Challenge pivots to all-virtual competition for cave circuitWashington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 
Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet.
Defunct rockets, satellites and spacecraft parts continue to orbit Earth after they are discarded.
The estimated 500,000 objects circling the globe range in size from a single screw to an entire rocke ... more |
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 Rolling Meadows IL (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected to provide the prime mission equipment for the Sierra Nevada Corporation-led AC/MC-130J Radio Frequency Countermeasure (RFCM) program.
Northrop Grumman's RFCM system utilizes the latest in antenna, amplifier and electronics technology. This technology provides superior situational awareness and better enables aircraft survivability in operatio ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 
Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.
Which makes the BDS system one of the four global navigation systems providing global navigation and positioning services; the other thr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 
Lockheed Martin, with its F-35 fighter plane, joined Boeing and Saab on Friday in submitting bids to build advanced aircraft for Canada's armed forces.
An upgrade to Canada's fleet of CF-18 planes, first purchased in 1977, is regarded as long overdue, and the process has been onerous.
A plan to purchase new planes first emerged in the 1990s, but changes in Canadian government, qu ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
A team of researchers led by Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, has developed a new form of electronics known as "drawn-on-skin electronics," allowing multifunctional sensors and circuits to be drawn on the skin with an ink pen.
The advance, the researchers report in Nature Communications, allows for the collection of more ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
A majority of the world population lives on low lying lands near the sea, some of which are predicted to submerge by the end of the 21st century due to rising sea levels.
The most relevant quantity for assessing the impacts of sea-level change on these communities is the relative sea-level rise - the elevation change between the Earth's surface height and sea surface height. For an observe ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 
Malaysia was criticised Tuesday for abandoning plans to introduce legislation that would have punished its firms operating in neighbouring Indonesia if they are found to have caused smog-belching forest fires.
Massive blazes, often started to clear land for palm oil plantations, burn out of control in Indonesia every year, blanketing the region in toxic smoke.
Last year's were the worst ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Japan's announcement on the suspension of the deployment of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems marks a potential shift in the country's security strategy. The turning point depends on the substitute for Aegis Ashore. The country is now considering pre-emptive strike capabilities as a possibility, targeting missile launchers in North Korea first instead of intercepting incoming missiles. Interc ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020 
The Army is looking to procure a shoulder-fired rocket system on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps, the Corps announced on Tuesday.
In July, the Army issued a request for proposals for proposals for the M72 Light Assault Weapon Fire from Enclosure munition, according to a Marine Corps press release.
The M72 is a compact, lightweight, single-shot weapon system that incorporates and ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, urban underground, and natural cave systems. Two previous scored events - Tunnel and Urban Circuits - featured both Virtual and Systems Competitions.
DARPA has made the difficult decision to pro ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OHw (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded multiple indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts to The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri; General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California; Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Palmdale, California. These initial awards will establish a vendor pool tha ... more |
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